was amazed. >> we were very, very close. >> bill: we were as close as john mccain was, you know, maybe a little farther back. >> you know -- >> bill: we didn't have a seat like he did on the podium but just beyond that was our media riser. >> we were on the media riser. if you look straight out, you would see the president sort of at the podium but between us and the president that's where all of the senators were sitting. so -- >> bill: at least half of them. >> yeah, but you saw a lot of senators, a lot of familiar faces. >> bill: right in front of the senators the president first lady the three daughters and then right across from them, the supreme court justices. >> i had a great eye line directly with scalia's scowl during the whole ceremony. with that hat he had on. >> bill: sort of like a papal hat. >> it was a weird hat. >> bill: breyer had a french dealey thing on. >> bill: i had a direct line looking at clarence tommance. he slept -- thomas. he slept through the whole thing. there is a great photograph in "the new york times," a wide-angle photograph of -- you don't call it -
